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56,691 | Is there a term similar to "ABD" (All But Dissertation) that denotes a PhD student who has completed all coursework, but who hasn't taken comprehensive exams and of course hasn't done the dissertation?
I left my PhD program unfinished, just before taking the comps. Hoping there's something similar to "ABD" that I can ... | [
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56,695 | I have recently defended my thesis in Sweden and started to look for positions, pretty much anywhere. As a part of the process I am currently trying to update and freshen my CV, linked-in profile etc.
I noticed that I am having difficulties in fitting into the existing templates when describing my profile. My work is... | [
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"text": "I wouldn't worry too much about it. If you have a PhD from the Department of Joggling, you have a PhD in Joggling mor... | 2015/10/22 | [
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56,699 | I'm writing my first paper, so I'm unsure about the guidelines I should follow. The subject is within the field of mechatronics and computer simulation.
If I use some basic physics equation in it (say Newton's second law), should I always add some reference that validates this formula? Or such basic equations don't ne... | [
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"text": "Justifications are for claims you make that need to be justified. Everyone reading your paper will know about New... | 2015/10/22 | [
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56,716 | I have applied for a Ph.D. in Computer Science. I do not, however, plan to become an academic afterward. What I want to achieve is to try to commercialize my research by founding a startup or find a job outside of Academia, using the knowledge I will obtain for enhancing or building products/services for my employer.
... | [
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"text": "Both fields are currently \"hot\" and have several practical applications. Thinking IBM research, MS research, ... | 2015/10/22 | [
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56,727 | I am currently an undergraduate student. I noticed that regardless of what courses I'm taking, there are always a handful of people who view everything as a huge competition. That is, they would do anything possible (other than committing academic offenses) to ensure that the final grade they receive is higher than eve... | [
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"text": "People will be people, in short. \n\nSome people are competitive. Some of them fiercely so. And some people... | 2015/10/23 | [
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56,731 | Suppose I disagree with the methods and/or conclusions of a paper published in a scientific journal, and I produce some new results that refute the claims in this paper. What would be the best way to publish my contradictory results in a way that challenges the original paper, but also shows respect for the authors of ... | [
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"text": "> \n> Should I explicitly mention the positive merits of that paper before explaining why I think that the con... | 2015/10/23 | [
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56,739 | I study mathematics and sometimes I have seen book that contains problems but not their solutions. Why are there no solutions available anywhere?
For example, the books I have read are:
* Neukirch: Algebraic number theory,
* Lang: Algebra,
* Liu: Algebraic geometry and arithmetic curves. | [
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"text": "One possible reason is that the author foresees that students will be using the book as a textbook, with profess... | 2015/10/23 | [
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56,749 | I am teaching a class of about 100 undergraduates.
The class meets for a three-hour block every week
in a lecture hall which seats about 120.
We have about 2-3 breaks every lecture,
to give students time to buy food, go to the restroom,
and also to work on some in-class problems
which they have to submit after the lect... | [
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"text": "You can consider the following.\n\n1. Make the parts when you are talking as brief as possible. If you ... | 2015/10/23 | [
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56,756 | At my department, a thesis defence committee consists of 3-4 professors (including the advisor(s)), one of whom does not belong to the department (so could be pretty much anyone related to the field).
It is common for a grad student to know who his thesis defence committee members are going to be quite ahead of the def... | [
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56,758 | I am applying for grad school, and its the same institution as my undergraduate studies. Can my proposed supervisors write me their recommendation letters as they are the ones that I interacted most closely with? | [
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"text": "Obviously thats the whole point. It is unethical for an academic to write a recommendation letter for a student, he/sh... | 2015/10/23 | [
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56,772 | **Note**: personal statement is a different to SOP/research statement. Some universities require this, while the others don't.
Unlike the research statement (SOP), the personal statement fragments into a lot of stories. For example, the structure of the SOP simply has four important points that your need to present we... | [
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"text": "**Edit:** I misread the question and interpreted it as being about including personal aspects in the u... | 2015/10/23 | [
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56,785 | Several researchers in my subfield (and in mathematics in general) use not-self-hosted `wordpress.com` subdomains for their *'professional blog'* (to blog about their research, their latest papers, or any topic related to their interests). *Few* of them use some pages of their blog as *'professional websites'* too (to ... | [
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"text": "In academia, an *amateurish*-looking website can almost be worse than having no website at all. Now \"amateurish\" here ... | 2015/10/23 | [
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56,804 | I will be taking GRE this November 2015 (giving four colleges name whose application I will fill fall 2016) , but will start the application process by next year. Will the college keep my GRE score for fall applications of 2016.?.Please help me.Thanks in advance. | [
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56,805 | I am currently working on my masters thesis in mathematical biology. The work I am doing extends previous work by introducing new biological findings that are relatively recent.
Initially the plan was to take the models in an early paper in the field, reproduce the results, and apply my extensions. But, after a fair b... | [
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"text": "When describing papers in general, when your results conflict with the one in another paper. You may do the foll... | 2015/10/24 | [
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56,808 | I am presenting several (11) data sets in a written communication (my dissertation). I have grouped the data separating it into several figures which fill two and a half pages, one after the other. Each figure shows the same three subplots, just with the new data set.
**Is it better to include the same caption in each... | [
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"text": "In a similar situation, I think I put something like \"Fig. 6: Results for case X [see text]\"...\n\nIdeally, t... | 2015/10/24 | [
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56,812 | Recently, I have reviewed an article for the IEEE (a very good article too). Within the article, the authors place great emphasis on a particular algorithm they developed and used, without disclosing any actual code - but explained very well that it could be replicated (which I won't do)..
Now, after I have provided a... | [
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56,824 | **TL;DR**: Thinking about leaving my PhD program after 6 months.
1.) The program is not what I imagined it would be.
2.) I'm not positive I need a PhD to do what I want to do.
3.) I've been offered a pretty great opportunity that would put me back on a track that I was happy with prior to my program.
4.) However, I do ... | [
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"text": "Been to similar situation. Here couple of points: \n\n**Decision and Responsibility**: You have enough personal reason... | 2015/10/24 | [
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56,833 | We recently had a c.s. theory / networks paper accepted at a special issue after addressing a major revision. After we got the letter of acceptance, author proofs, signed the copyright release, etc., we got a letter saying
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> the paper was inadvertently marked as "Accepted" which was not the decision of the guest ed... | [
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56,844 | I am in a master's program, and one of my peers in the program is in two classes with me. He is a nice person, but he tends to ask a *lot* of questions in lectures; both of which are very large, and often ends up derailing the lecture for 25-30 minutes.
It has (long since) gotten to the point where many people are bot... | [
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56,849 | Many years ago, when I was very new to the world of scientific paper publishing, I was a co-author to a paper that was subsequently retracted after an investigation of the findings. This was before I did my PhD (was a Master's student in a different field that I am currently in).
To explain, my role in the data collec... | [
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"text": "[The effect of retractions on scientific careers has been studied](http://retractionwatch.com/2015/06/16/life-afte... | 2015/10/25 | [
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56,854 | The question is pretty much the title. To start off, I'm not really worried about my record in pure mathematics classes/research. However, solely for the purpose of having a career backup I've also picked up a second major in applied math and several CS courses. I generally have little passion for these classes and end... | [
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56,857 | I have a strong background in programming and I'm interested in solving computational problems in other areas like physics or economics. During my bachelor studies I have been involved in several research projects. However, my contribution was mostly limited to solving computational problems. The theoretical side of ou... | [
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56,861 | National Science Foundation (NSF) in US enforces a limit on salary compensation over all grants, often referred to as the [**two-ninths-rule**](http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf08_1/aag_5.jsp):
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> Summer salary for faculty members on academic-year appointments is
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56,867 | I am thinking about where the borderline is with citations.
I made a new picture based on three different sources, so I wrote under the picture "adapted from [3,6,9]." This, however, seems to be funny.
When do you need to include citations for your modifications of pictures? | [
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56,868 | I am interested in doing a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at any of the premier American Universities. I have a postgraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, which I completed in 1983. I have about 30 years of working experience in India as a... | [
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56,884 | I am applying to our organization‘s scholarship program to pay for graduate school (if I get accepted).
One of essay questions is:
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> Why is graduate study important at this time in your life?
>
>
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56,894 | I'm working on a data model which, I think, produces more accurate and valid results than *some* of previous works by others, including my supervisor, who by the way supports my work. But so far, the relevant community in general hasn't paid enough attention to the need for such more accurate results in this field.
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56,895 | Is it usual for postdocs (I'm in the US) to sign one contract with the department and then have to accept a notice of appointment online which supercedes the initial one signed?
I signed my postdoc job offer before moving to the US to take up the position and then when I arrived in the country I had to accept what tur... | [
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56,899 | I performed a small set of experiments for a few published papers. The authors of these papers decided that my work was not significant enough to warrant my name on the papers. I am not mentioned in the acknowledgement section either, so my name isn't anywhere on the papers. (I left the group due to a lack of funding b... | [
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56,916 | I am compiling my thesis, and have noticed that the LaTeX template that I am using provides space for a dedication.
Whilst I do have an individual whom I want to credit with being a source of inspiration for my research and career motivation, I'm curious as to if honours theses normally include a dedication, and if I ... | [
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56,917 | I am dithering between an NZ/Australia PhD, and the US/Canada one. Is it ever possible to teach in the US/Canadian universities with an NZ/Aus PhD? | [
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56,921 | I'm a senior applying for admissions to Ph.D. programs in mathematics. The departments I'm applying to all ask for three recommendations and encourage (but don't usually require) them to be from math professors.
I have three math professors whom I plan to ask for letters, and I believe all of them will be strong, but... | [
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56,931 | Why is access to research databases (ebrary, EBSCO, JSTOR, LexisNexis, Project MUSE, Proquest, Sage, Science Direct, etc) – *even when you’re a student or faculty member at an institution with a subscription* - such a hassle, especially when off-campus or on a phone/tablet? Is there any way to solve this?
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56,932 | I did my PhD four years back. I was funded from my home country and I have done all the work. I started writing papers before submitting my thesis.
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56,939 | **Is it possible to become a researcher on my own? How do I replicate the grad school experience through self study or being an autodidact?**
I came across these two sites: [How to Become a Pure Mathematician (or Statistician)](http://hbpms.blogspot.in/) and [How to become a
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56,941 | I am from country A and am studying in country B. A researcher from country C would like to collaborate with me. However, my home country (country A) has poor (hostile) relations with the researcher's country (country C). I'm concerned that if I accept this collaboration offer, which will be done in country B, I may ge... | [
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56,942 | If I did a bachelors a long time ago in an unrelated field and I am applying for a job that requires a PhD And a Master's should I put the bachelor's degree? Is it necessary? | [
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56,959 | It has been proven that the source of funding can have an influence on the results of a research ([funding bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_bias), well documented [here](http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Js8109e/6.11.html) and [here](http://www.tufts.edu/~skrimsky/PDF/Funding%20Effect%20and%20Bias.PDF)).... | [
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56,963 | I am a first year PhD student, and it's the fourth week of school. I am taking two classes, doing one grad class TA and doing a lab rotation. I am in Electrical Engineering (Controls and DSP).
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56,970 | I came across [this](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221249261530018X) article which has a section named **uncited references**.
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56,974 | This might sound odd, yet here is my story. I was lucky to get governmental scholarship (GSch) for 4-5 years of PhD to study abroad. But It requires student to work as Assistant Professor in a relatively smaller university in my homeland for 8-10 years afterwards. Which I would not like myself bound to after my PhD.
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56,978 | Some journals require you to state the conflicts of interests (if any). According to the Wikipedia definition,
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56,984 | **Assumption based upon my experience from CS:** Typically, the business model of academic publishers is to archive and disseminate papers whose authors have transferred exclusive publication rights to the publisher. Sometimes, there are limited provisions such as authors being allowed to host a copy on their personal ... | [
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56,992 | I have just passed my transfer for a PhD project I don't enjoy, and am trying to decide what to do next.
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56,998 | In my opinion, UI/UX (user interface / user experience) or programming syntax are just like a piece of art. Some people will like your work, some won’t – it depends on a number of factors varying among people. I am doing *research* in designing UI/UX or programming syntax, and I have a few questions:
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57,007 | I am preparing slides for a short (10min) talk at the group meeting. The talk is about a fairly serious piece of (pure) mathematics, and it so happens that there is a very relevant one-panel webcomic. A thought appeared to me, and got some support from my fellow PhD students, that it would be cool to include this comic... | [
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57,018 | A graduate student's main task would be the concentration on the research and scientific stuffs for stepping on the path of progression, as well as possible.
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57,027 | If I presented a poster at a conference that contained the results of some research, can I then write a paper using those same results and submit it to another conference as a full paper? | [
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57,028 | My question is regarding how to go against advice given by advisers/faculty in a professional way, specifically in applying to graduate schools (but I am interested in the general case as well). Due to my poor test scores, one of my mentors has explicitly said that I should not apply to school X and Y. However, the loc... | [
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57,042 | Background: I am a fourth year math graduate student working as a TA for an introduction to proofs course with a focus on analysis.
I really enjoy the teaching component of my position as a graduate student, but this semester I feel as though students are taking advantage of my generosity.
As is typical for a TA in t... | [
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57,052 | I am a PhD student from computer science and try to submit a paper to IEEE transactions. In addition, I also submitted it to arXiv under the CC0 license (Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication), where it was already published. This might be unacceptable for IEEE.
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57,054 | Update: There isn't any disabilities office. Not US...
I'd like to expand on a comment I just made down there: I'm not trying to find a silver bullet. I just want a reasonable starting point.
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It is a pretty straightforward question:
>
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57,056 | I just found out that the lecturer of an undergraduate course I'm tutoring in has given the students an assignment to evaluate a product from the company he works for. To evaluate it, they need to read articles written by people in his company and write up a report. They don't have alternative assessment options. Is th... | [
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57,071 | I wonder why so many publishing venues limit the length of paper submissions. I understand that such page limits were first created when papers were published offline, but nowadays, what are the reasons? One important downside of page limits it that authors often crop useful details out, which hinders reproducibility a... | [
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57,074 | My accounting professor created a large binder full of notes for us to use instead of an actual textbook. He created it, and since he's the head of the accounting department at my university, he has implemented it into all of the accounting curricula. In this binder, there are news articles and random cartoons which ar... | [
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57,081 | We all know that someone with a doctorate is called a Doctor (or abbreviated as Dr.), is there a formal title for someone with a Masters degree? I've never heard someone refer to a person with a masters as "Master". I've also heard that Esquire is sometimes used as a formal title for someone with a masters, is this cor... | [
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57,107 | I am a young researcher, and recently, I find that the drive to publish and advance my career has created an unhealthy mindset. In particular, I find that when I have a good idea, I am worried that someone will have the same idea, carry out the analysis, and publish before I do. While this worry has greatly speeded up ... | [
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57,120 | Can I put the name of my baby as one of the co-authors of a scientific paper?
I know it sounds disturbing, but it's a way of mine to protest against co-authors that haven't made any contribution (they haven't even read it or are part of the research area) to a paper, but they are part of the research group.
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57,127 | [The guide in Berkeley](http://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/personal-statement/) states:
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57,141 | Some universities in the UK require that all purchases from budget available to researchers happen through one or more authorized suppliers. They tend to be strict in this regard, even though some equipment might not be available or the price of it might be higher than elsewhere.
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57,150 | I am in a graduate course of functional analysis (in the abstract setting of topological vector spaces) in which the professor uses his own notes. The notes are very condensed and terse and there is no reference. Classes consist of student presentations in turn and the professor does not lecture.
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57,165 | I feel like after graduate students pass their qualifying exams, they still have a lot of learning to do before they're knowledgeable enough in a specific area to understand and work on the open questions in that area. But how do they get there? Do they just take advanced courses in the area of interest, or are they ex... | [
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57,170 | I am an undergraduate student with an interest in Computer science, so recently i have discovered new concepts and algorithms related to patterns and simulations (i.e biological simulations & computational models simulations), and how they can be related easily, extremely easily to mathematics in a way that it would en... | [
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57,174 | Some courses at different departments are very related in content. Is it fine or a university should offer 1 specific course across all departments? | [
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57,176 | I'm a first-year student at a private university in America. One of my classes for my first semester is essentially our English General Education requirement - it's called "Rhetoric & Composition". However, the class completely surpassed my expectations of the depth of discussion that would be had - we are learning a l... | [
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57,182 | I am unsure if this is the right place to ask this but I have seen this style of diagrams (shamelessly stolen from [this](https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5665/differential-equations-of-a-simplified-loading-bridge) question):
mostly i... | [
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57,193 | Difficult to title this, but in essence, I am working on the premise that ethically, the work done in the lab belongs to the PI and the lab as a group. So if there is another question that deals with this I have not found it.
In the case where a lab takes undergraduate interns or UROP positions, such that the undergra... | [
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57,205 | I know a professor who is really brilliant, but also very modest. This professor has helped me to progress in life. Now, I want to express my gratitude by nominating him as [ACM Fellow](http://awards.acm.org/fellow/). However, I have no experience in situations of this kind and I would like to ask you a couple of quest... | [
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57,210 | I am working on a confidential research project. I'm not allowed to talk to anybody outside of the group without explicit permission. However, my colleagues from other groups are curious of what I am doing. I don't want to damage the working relationship but I just can't share too much details. Should I lie something (... | [
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57,217 | I have a MS in CS with strong interest in statistics. I am very much interested in doing a PhD in bioinformatics as it gives me best of both worlds. After my PhD my goal is to get an academic position but I am not sure if bioinformatics is the correct path to take or should I do a PhD in CS with focus on bioinformatics... | [
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57,221 | I recently finished Medical School and I'm interested in getting into a MSc program in Cognitive Neurosciences in Germany.
Regarding my CV, what should I emphasize? I only have two articles in press and another one is under review at a well positioned journal. However I am worried because I don't know if they are too... | [
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57,225 | The [majority of papers](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/29137/452) don't share their code. However, I sometimes want to reproduce the results, and therefore re-code the experiments to try to reproduce the papers.
Where shall I share the code, findings, comments, and potentially some data sets, put aside from Git... | [
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57,231 | I am a second year clinical psychology PhD student. I have had some difficulties with my adviser in terms of never feeling good enough or that my efforts are acknowledged. The adviser has recently made more explicit comments regarding the lack of progress I have made on my critical/academic writing skills. As backgroun... | [
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57,233 | When applying for Master in an European country, English certificates such as CAE, CPE, TOEFL, IELTS are required. Is there a limit about the "age" of the certificate?
I got CPE 5 or 6 years ago. Is it acceptable or a more recent is needed? The programs which I have seen, do not clear that out. | [
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57,236 | I've been wondering about this for some time. I did my PhD at the big university A. I had access to hundreds of online journals and ebooks. I was downloading papers and ebooks, classifying them, reading them, taking notes on the pdf, etc. At the end of my PhD, I had some 1.2 GB of annotated ebooks, papers, and digital ... | [
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57,261 | I have evaluated a software project which has been created by a consortium of top scientists in the field. However, the project itself it doesn't really work, and has only been developed as a proof-of-concept rather than an end product (i.e., it works only with 2-3 scenarios).
This software application should perform ... | [
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57,269 | Should I report a graduate student who "hires" other people to do their coursework? Is this a proper course of action to take? I understand the repercussions will be outstanding for the individual.
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57,273 | Software piracy is obviously illegal as well as being wrong for a variety of reasons. However, from my experience it is extremely common to see pirated software being used by research students. This appears to be implicitly condoned/encouraged by some academic staff.
Usually software piracy is done by an individual fo... | [
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57,276 | I collected a large amount of data for a research project at my university for a professor who is not my advisor. I was originally told that I would get the opportunity to collaborate on a manuscript. I would write one paper while the PI would write the other.
Now that I have collected huge amounts of data, it appear... | [
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57,286 | I am taking a graduate machine learning course and am working with another student in the class on a final project. In his undergraduate studies, the other student wrote code that accomplished a similar task, and mentioned in our previous meeting that we would be able to leverage much of this code for our current proje... | [
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57,313 | I’m a senior in my final year of a B.S. degree in Engineering in the United States. One of my professors is in a geriatric state (he is not tenured). His class is largely themed around student presentations which form the core curriculum and all material tested on exams.
Unfortunately, the professor often falls asleep... | [
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57,314 | I want to write three papers from my thesis. But actually I am stuck. What is the first step to do?
Do I first choose the journal (more precise scope) and then I move on to write the article according to this scope. (Of course the choice of journal is based on my research topic.)
Or do I start with writing the paper ... | [
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57,320 | In the question about [choosing research ideas to include in a statement of purpose](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/1529/14341), JeffE advised how to write the last paragraph of the SOP:
>
> How does my department fit your research goals? (If the rest of your statement is well-written, the reader already knows ... | [
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57,326 | If a graduate student knows that they are on the lower end of the stipends offered to their cohort, and if they are performing as good or better than their other cohort members (as measured by grades, number of publications, number of current collaborations, etc.), then is it acceptable to ask for a higher stipend? If ... | [
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57,328 | Update/follow up: Can this have something to do with the specific rank? I mean, does it make sense to require this for the rank of Assistant professor for some reason?
Link for the posting: <http://cra.org/job/umass_lowell-assistantassociate-professor-computer-science-2-positions/>
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I was checking some postings fr... | [
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57,329 | Is there any issue with using a course title that is similar to a book title or a course at other university, or it would be better to have a unique name? | [
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57,334 | If one wants to do research in computational neuroscience, which PhD program would increase the chances of getting a professor job at a research university immediately upon graduation from that PhD program the most? Assuming, all else being equal.
A) PhD in Computer Science
B) PhD in Computational Neuroscience
In o... | [
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57,343 | I am thinking of applying at several Biology PhD programmes and for this I need several recommendation letters. Have you experienced the situation where the head of the targeted Department asked the person that recommended you further details about you, even though the letters already contain references to your work/be... | [
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57,349 | I'm currently applying to Gtay school- mechanical engineering-and have a full academic scholarship to continue my education from the government.
Does this make it easier for me to gain acceptance to top schools like Stanford and Carnegie for masters? I'm doing the GRE in 3 weeks, but will I still need a 165+ in the m... | [
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57,363 | I am attempting to do my PhD "in the open", to treat the entire project of getting my degree (whose research is unrelatedly Computer Science), as a study. That is, I am going to collect my thought processes and outputs in an [Open Notebook Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_notebook_science) way. To legitimize... | [
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57,376 | **Background**
As the title suggest, a year before I'm in the current program I'm in, I left another Ph.D. program in a different field and got a master.
**Issues**
As for now, I prefer not to talk about it if I don't need to. Most people don't ask and don't care. However sometime a conversation goes certain way whe... | [
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57,390 | I know that submitting a paper to a conference implies a promise to present the paper if it's accepted. However, I have seen conferences where a *paper* that you submit could be accepted as a *poster* instead. I have a limited travel budget (who doesn't?), and I would rather not travel just for a poster presentation, s... | [
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57,397 | For my Ph.D. thesis, I developed a new usability method which focuses on a survey. The main contribution is a description for practitioners how to conduct such a survey. For this, I could not develop a standard questionnaire, but gave guidelines on how to construct one.
I am validating the method by conducting such a... | [
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57,398 | What is the implication of the peer-reviewed journal to state "you cannot recommend the reviewers"? (one can inform the "oppose reviewers" only).
What good does the journal get out of such a practice? Just curious. | [
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57,403 | I am currently updating my CV before applying for postdoc positions (and grants) and got a bit puzzled about a small but possibly important detail.
The chapters I have on my CV are Education, Experience, Extracurricular/Voluntary Work and Publications. While I am not forced to keep this structure, I find it very logic... | [
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57,413 | The date format is usually written as mm/dd/yy and sometimes the month written out followed by the day followed by a comma and the year. My question is: is it academically acceptable to write the date in mm.dd.yy format? I like the . . . format better than the / / / format, which is why I ask the question. | [
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57,420 | I have seen [several](http://www.academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2015/ecel15-registration.htm) [conferences](http://www.cis.fiu.edu/wise2015/) that specify:
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> If multiple papers are accepted for presentation, each paper requires a separate registration fee.
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Why? Is that purely financially motivated (e.g... | [
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57,431 | I am currently applying to Ph.D programs in the US in Mathematics and am trying to decide what to list for my research interests. I am very interested in field Y, but I also have a background (and slightly less interested) in field X. I have enough knowledge to discuss both, but I definitely know more about field Y. Th... | [
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57,444 | After I read about 40 papers in my research topic, I summarized 25 of them in my thesis, explaining methods used and solutions provided in the literature survey and literature-review sections. I found out a gap in the previous researches and would like to point it out in my thesis, in order to explain where my work wou... | [
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57,458 | I have submitted a paper to an IEEE conference before this. I received a rejection today despite the fact that, both reviewers recommend to accept my paper.
The reason for rejection is not mentioned at all in the email. I try to analyze the reason and from my point of view:
1. The paper is not out of the conference's... | [
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